how to build a forklift type arm

[midway78224]

my team and students have recently decide to do some off-season prototyping and one of the things that we want to do is a forklift type arm but we dont have a clue on how to build one. we wud greatly appericated if a team who has done this before wud give us a idea on how to build it pics, videos anything wud help us thank you

[Ericgehrken]

A great start would to look at successful teams that have used a forklift arm. Look at pictures of 254 and 25 from 2007 and you will see great examples of forklift arms.

[Akash Rastogi]

Or do you mean one like 816 (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team.php?team=816)?

Btw, here's an aweosme picture of 25 last year for reference...
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27363

It is also similar to our design from last year...
http://mortteam11.myrobotics.info/design/

[midway78224]

yeah i have the first book and 25 arm looks great but we need examples on how to build it from the ground up

[Joe Ross]

The following white paper has some good information: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1322 and here are some more pictures: http://www.firstroboticscanada.org/site/node/72

Here is another discussion of forklifts (which came up in the related threads on the bottom of this page): http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61695

[thefro526]

I've designed two for my team in the last two years (1 vex and 1 FRC) and I've got a pretty good handle on how they work essentially. If you want anything specific from our robot in terms of pictures or diagrams just shoot me a PM and I'll send them to you.